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Nessus NASL Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA8842
Release Date: 2003-05-23
Popularity: 7,438 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Nessus 1.x
Nessus 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Nessus, which can potentially allow malicious users to escalate privileges or malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to some boundary errors in the NASL scripting engine when executing specially crafted NASL scripts.

Successful exploitation either requires a valid account on the system and the ability to install arbitrary Nessus plug-ins or that a malicios person is able to trick a user with the nessescary privileges into installing and executing a malicious NASL script.

NOTE: It is not possible for a user to install arbitrary plug-ins by default.

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